Sentences with phrase «budget movie with»

The Expendables 3 is a good example of a high - budget movie with dialog that sounds like it was recorded in a small cardboard box.

But in this age of ubiquitous sequels, prequels, spin - offs, and remakes, we should be celebrating a big budget movie with big original ideas and actual things to say.

«There aren't many examples of African American directors being given that kind of opportunity to make a big - budget movie with a black cast and a global marketing campaign,» said Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences at UCLA.

A big budget movie with a heart, Tom Hooper's period drama starred Colin Firth as Bertie Windsor, Edward VII's painfully shy younger brother who's thrust into the limelight when his brother abdicates to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson in 1936.

But unfortuantely, it was just a bad low budget movie with dodgy acting.

This year Vachon is at Sundance with four low - budget movies with the reunion of Mike White and Miguel Arteta («Beatriz at Dinner»), «Dina,» starring Dina Buno, Andrew Dosunmu's «Where is Kyra?»

Greta Gerwig is something of a millennial indie darling, known for her string of mumblecore films — low - budget movies with an emphasis on naturalistic acting and dialogue — that have become popular over the past decade.

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He added that the extra revenue would wind up as a boon to filmmakers, with studios investing more money in film budgets and making more movies overall.

Now, DuVernay is busy making history again as the first black woman to direct a movie with a $ 100 million budget: Disney's A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Analysts were forecasting weekend sales of $ 41 million to $ 47 million for the Spielberg film, a respectable opening for a movie with a production budget set at $ 150 million to $ 175 million by people with knowledge of the matter, and additional millions in marketing costs.

China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve production quality.

It green - lights movies with a max budget of $ 1 million each, with the cast paid scale and the director getting final cut.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

With major studios pumping more and more money into superhero movies and tentpole franchises with sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth explorWith major studios pumping more and more money into superhero movies and tentpole franchises with sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth explorwith sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth exploring.

Despite it being the fantasy series» shortest season yet, Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have promised the final episodes will be on a much more cinematic level with movie - length run times — and Hollywood blockbuster budgets to match at an average of $ 15 million per episode.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

Amazon expects to focus on «indie» movies with budgets of between $ 5 million and $ 25 million, spokeswoman Sally Fouts said.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

At least three of these movies are independent films, each with a budget of $ 6 - 8 million.

Compare these 10x returns with a mainstream movie like The Dark Knight, which made less than six times its budget of $ 185 million — and that's among the more successful hits.

Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

A prime example is the movie Waterworld, made with a budget of $ 175 million, which grossed only $ 88 million worldwide.

The service has evolved from being solely a buyer of shows and movies to become one of the active producers of TV, documentaries and films, with a long - term budget that approaches $ 10 billion, according to filings.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

Not bad for a movie with a $ 2 million budget, and Kevin Sorbo and the «Duck Dynasty» guys on the marquee.

With their followup, 2006's Nacho Libre, the Hesses scored a big - time movie star for the lead in Jack Black, and landed a solid $ 32 million budget to tell the tale of a single Mexican man who works in an orphanage yet feels the call of stardom via wrestling.

We really have a lean and tight budget (no cell phones, no cable TV, no eating out, no movies, etc), but there are still so many areas we could cut back, and we struggle with what is the right thing to do.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

After early critical acclaim (she's been nominated for Golden Globes, Emmys, Oscars, and a ton of other major awards), she's now become the first woman of color to helm a movie with a budget of at least $ 100 million.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

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Brad Pitt plays a total bad ass tank commander and Logan Lerman seems to be making more of a name for himself with another solid role in a big budget movie.

I feel like a movie with the budget of the Fifty Shades franchise could spring for fresh wee bags for everyone, no?

A cute new outfit, tickets to the movies, and pizza with friends should all come out of her own budget.

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We sat down with our kids and looked closely at their day - to - day lives and then decided on what we would pay for such as clothing, cell phone plans and after - school activities and sports fees and then gave them a budget for the rest such as entertainment (the price of a movie ticket once a month), gifts (birthdays, holidays, church), their craving for school cafeteria food — which we capped at twice a week — plus a small stipend.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

In this case, participants whose purchases depleted their financial resources reported lower satisfaction with a movie download compared to those who purchased the same movie with plenty of money remaining in their budget.

With the look of a big - budget movie, Falling Skies offers up - close views of CGI extraterrestrials who are kidnapping human children for reasons unknown — but presumably nefarious.

Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

There is certainly nothing wrong with Stanford as a movie, which has a vividness and scope that feels authentic even on a limited budget, and those performances are well worth seeing.

Baker (Starlet, Greg The Bunny) traffics in the big and broad, but his aesthetic here is totally ratty; at times, the movie's imagery, frenetic movement, and distorted wide - angle close - ups bring to mind Crank: High Voltage and Inland Empire crossed with a low - budget music video.

Given the movie budget, the special effects look surprisingly ordinary, with the Colosseum especially appearing almost cartoonish.

«The Towering Inferno» laid the foundation for good disaster movies to come, both in being huge budget and cast wise, and with great special effects that accompany a story that makes you glad you're not one of the people you're watching on the screen.

The movie - which was made on a tiny budget with a non-professional cast and no crew to speak of - finds the critical discourse in poetry and vice versa.

Much of the attention for the movie has centered on its preposterously low shooting budget and camera, an iPhone 5s with a $ 7.99 high - def app, a Steadicam rig, and the odd anamorphic lens.

Writer / director Blomkamp follows his politically charged 2009 sci - fi film District 9 81 with another socially aware sci - fi action movie, albeit one with a much larger budget.

The movie - a big fat episode, essentially, with a noticeably constrained budget - is a satisfying thriller, with romantic and religious angst substituting for explosions and chase scenes.

Although Deadpool 2 repeats the first movie's jokes about the character being a scrappy castoff not good enough for Marvel's higher - profile franchises — at one point, Wade opens the wrong door in Charles Xavier's manor and finds the better - known characters staring back at him in confused irritation — this one has the budget and the clout to allow him to associate with a higher class of co-star.